border strikes turkey fires at syria again in response to a mortar attack as the turkish prime minister says it will go to war if provoked. police fired tear gas and water cannons at anti-government demonstrators in bahrain people. and activists death in custody. and it's a day of campaign silence in venezuela as the country prepares to go to the presidential polls to see whether chavez can cling on to power.

live from moscow city center this is with me rule received shy and turkey has launched a fresh artillery strike on syria this in response to another mortar attack from across the border began it shelling on wednesday in retaliation for syrian mortar bomb that killed five civilians middle east correspondent. she has details now. we do know that the mortar bomb landed in the countryside in turkish that territory so it is possible that no one in fact was injured or killed we also have no word on who was responsible for this later mortar from syria what i can tell you though is that almost immediately turkey responded and went on the offensive meaning that we have the situation along the turkish syrian border intensifying its started back on wednesday when a mortar bomb fired from syria killed five turkish citizens and since in the situation has nearly escalated we're hearing from the turkish prime minister that

he does not want a situation of war but he has warned the syrians not to make a fatal mistake and that is a quote from him and taste his resolve the syrians will this side have apologized for those what is interesting is that you need to realize that these waters that are being fired from syria into turkey on close range missiles now they are coming from territory that is controlled by the syrian rebels so this is why many are suggesting that perhaps they are being fired on purpose they're being fired to provoke the situation and create a false flag operation now the reasoning behind this could be that turkey for some time has been calling for a no fly zone it might be provoked into calling for foreign intervention and for nato to get involved in fact we've heard some rebel leaders in exile call for this although the majority of excels in the majority of syrians are against this but the situation intensifying on the ground and everyone concerned that we could see this

border tension escape into some kind of regional conflict the battle certainly is intensifying the latest there's a video that has now been released by the syrian rebels we have no confirmation as to be authentic patient of the video but in it it does claim that the rebels will start executing forty eight shiite muslims from iran if damascus does not meet the demands of the syrian rebels now there has been dialogue and some kind of negotiations. wow between the syrian government and the reigning government at the same time just outside damascus the rebels have shot down a syrian helicopter gunship but this comes as shelling continues between both sides in several cities around the country russia has come to the fore in the media atri role it has said that it hopes the united nations arab envoy to syria will be coming to moscow perhaps later this month and they too they hope that both sides will express caution moscow also saying that these cross border incidents are

completely unacceptable audi's policy reporting right now after the parliament authorized troops to launch cross border operations against syria and the country is a prime minister a war that will not shy from war if indeed provoked author and journalist afshin rattansi believes damascus will retaliate if indeed is pulled into a broader conflict. this kind of flashpoint is the kind of flashpoint that can create world war three and nato as some people have it is a false flag operation we're getting these reports of this continued as it were a reaction from the turkish government ok so one will face political problems at home but then why were they speaking with the iranians talking about how this needs a diplomatic solution not a military one if turkey continues down to the agreements we didn't vote this would draw in a way to situation a wider fears here over the war and risks expanding it the people of syria and the

people of turkey will not benefit from this major says that they'll defend any nato member if turkey continue like this syria might see itself getting increasingly desperate and retaliate with full force then it's up to the united states. britain european and nato allies to figure out what to do what we need urgently right now is a peace conference certainly it's up to china and russia because they're the only people stopping a full scale war the kind of war that will only help but forces it looks like such as al-qaeda united states is again supporting al-qaeda and turkey stirred one should know much better than to try and help al qaeda he's been doing his best to fight the forces of his presence. turning our attention to that of bahrain where riot police have fired tear gas and water cannons at anti-government protesters and this after a funeral march for an activist who died in custody turned violent demonstrators

accuse the government of denying demand treatment but authorities claim he died of a blood disease per reform crowds were trying to reach their former pole square in the capital which is now heavily guarded by police protesters threw firebombs and of rocks tear gas canisters were holding them by the offices the sunni monarchy has been cracking down hard on the show opposition for some twenty months now. the activists are demanding equal rights and the release of political prisoners including prominent human rights activist and the bill at a job he's currently serving three years in prison for attending an illegal rally. or any m.p. so i have had the other maasai says that certain states only get involved when it benefits them. the problem and the double standard which practice by all those who student contraries. then they do consent and on those regimes who have some. let's say we each relationship with them or

probably they consider them as enemies but like oh it was a product of their system they have roots off relationship they give them some let's say support. as one truth is they take some for cities and they have the only for all i want to countries down so why ignore the old what's happening here although it's not list done what's happening somewhere else. well more stories are features and videos always in school you want to website on so you don't call me study against a study the european food safety authority has rejected a controversial report by french scientists linking g.m. corn to cancer more details on that online. also radical muslim cleric abu hamza and four of a terror suspects are extradited to the u.s.

it's off the losing their appeal in the u.k. over what they claim is a lack of evidence in the case more on that avanti done. now the republic of venice is planning for a glorious comeback supporters of a nation independence from italy a gathering for a rally to demand the region go it alone tired of being saddled with rome's austerity it's the latest in a number of european regions to consider independence including scotland and catalonia that's not told to press a little because he was a chairman of the separatist independence of any the party which is organize the rally good to see you today can you please explain to us all of us here why exactly do you want the venetian region to go it alone at all to everyone know well there are several regions results that mean reason is economic is that we are being. jewish and we're in a situation worse than a colony because there's a worse once they get x. three in italy it's the highest in the world and our services. are

extremely poor we have about twenty billion a sin from our regional resources each year and that some bearable and i just see. a couple of days ago there was a siege of say mark spell powered by four workers and there's this situation here in van it so it's it's almost explosive sold today we had a thousands of people who have gathered in front of their regional government they were going to present to the. a resolution signed by thousands of british banks who have refrained encore and banned in savannah ok so you talk about this independence for the venetian region you mentioned a moment ago that you guys are missing twenty billion in annual revenue are you saying then that if indeed you get independence that the venetian region can survive on its own i could be taken more than survive it would be it is.

count three in europe after luxembourg will be rid of a sort of jump in it but obviously we've got a lot of noise than an incredible crowd i've been watching you all fare as well lots of people in attendance how much support is there truly for independents ok the first poll that was done on it was in two thousand and seven it was only eleven percent in two thousand and twelve the same up. fifty three percent in january in september after what happened at the lawn yeah they've pulled to. the end. and they lead us why not seventy eighty percent of the people of bennett will want to plan this much higher and you're getting the laws and you get in a scotland as you say as you say the numbers of those calling and wanting independence for the phoenician region has been systematically on the rise but do

you think that rome will allow you to go without a fights where they will they will have to obey i have to buy to the international law that they. did as well. there are laws that regulate. that there are a related issue to chip in the human or the same way that the law and only stealing within the grandest of scotland the sculptor will have its referee in the in two thousand and fourteen and we believe that in banning it will have been to hand this before and. it was. things are moving here dramatically fast oh i know you mentioned scotland a moment ago scotland and catalonia they all you know i say we all know a wanting independence now the venetian reach you know g g g think this is a something that's growing across across the eurozone across the e.u. . yes i believe so for sure a needle you are not the only one there are we in sort of the i have strong movements for it who are the best story going to ice but soon after i know it's

going to happen there are regions severely sauce pharmacy italy is concerned for sure and for all you know there are realities in europe like in vail. i mean and in the u.k. . professor. politician in chairman of the independence of the need to the organizers of the rally thank you very much for joining us on our see today. are still a bit later in the program here on our taking your dog for a stroll or may not be such a walk in the park right it's a huge london denying people their personal freedoms by imposing high fines for obscure offenses plus. palaces like like which might really believe ok on the other side of that of the other one you know we are closely following the presidential race for the white house and if you know asking people

in america if they might be suffering from the election for tea party all of these stories and much more to come in depth off to a short break hope you can stay with us here on our t.v. live from boston. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the right. of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit is no this picturesque place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction.

treaty has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the sights others convert the islands nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than a hundred million dollars net profit. and to a large extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally the tonight

show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination. seven fifteen saturday night here in moscow this is our two year may sound strange but it turns out that walking your dog or feeding the birds could actually land you in a lot of trouble in many london parks civil rights groups have accused the city of cracking down on personal freedoms despite there being little information on what are tiffany's are actually banned and where to search for the reporter not even the

police will be coming after you if you break the rules here in this park in london if your found drinking alcohol or growing up or or even feeding the pigeons you could inadvertently be committing a criminal or civil the prize will serve a lot of people the band in london matt says a whopping four hundred thirty five prohibition zones aimed at tackling and he say should behavior but what might have been a good policy idea in theory has local people say and it up a very bad policy in practice meaning hardline crackdowns on soft this misdemeanors disconcertingly many bars in london have now hired private contractors to carry out the enforcement of these fines phil morris knows all about them after his local council hired services he received an eighty pound penalty for dropping a cigarette butt and that he maintains he didn't know it was illegal he refused to

pay to fruit. for and. see just who are ex for the private security and surveillance of the missing providers a so-called in full sprint offices in the u.k. contracted by some local councils first start they get it out with cameras and uniforms but the tactics of pursuing these fines often seem far from professional. don't get lost sleep on. the way to people we asked those local council for their response they told us to see these new offices back up support for the public who are not with the actions of the minority. and move away when they don't fouls. are litter and not get paid unless the issue of find appropriately and surprising that the areas where it's full have been hired

has seen a massive increase in the number of fines that a receipt and there's now concern over whether that is fair or ethical about the current ability of the transparency i recently dealt in the home affairs select committee which looks at these issues with a case of the london bar of new and which has law enforcement officers who are in fact council officials but dress up like police have been promised them a commission is going to look into it because it's it's actually i think a criminal activity to pretend to be a police officer when you're not and i'm very concerned about how that trend is going i think in the past it would be assumes that people knew the law the law was reasonable and so long as you weren't creating a problem then you could do what you like but increasingly it seems that that is no longer the case these findings may be surprising for sun but the truth is these types of laws in offenses of being creeping up on us the some time now they're actually growing in number so also the moment you can enjoy the parks in london but

if you do they do not feed the sarah. you will get to the arty world of it in just a couple of minutes here for an hour though it is a day of campaigning silence in venezuela this on the eve of sunday's tightly contested presidential vote the election of war for your how many remain loyal to the outspoken socialist leader hugo chavez his opponent a young lawyer and staunch critic of the government as predicted give him rather a close race at the polls in caracas for us as lucy calf. there's no question who these venezuelans will be voting for comic over seventh i mean we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor everything here has gotten a lot better because of him everything has changed. their red shirts brand them as the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his

fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in caracas on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of alkali done to. his supporters say that chavez is the country's first president genuinely care about the lower class thank god i think chavez is the punishment of the rich and the window of hope to cool. them. under the banner of socialism for the twenty first century chavez has pumped hundreds of billions of petro dollars into the economy and government run aid programs along with earning him popular support poverty has fallen from fifty percent in one thousand nine hundred nine to around thirty percent last year yet life in this country is far from ideal and with the plague of unemployment climb and corruption many venezuelans are now saying it's time for chavez to go but it looks like i'm one of those who voted for chavez but he's time has passed community change. in this race change means

a vote for opposition leader in the us a forty year old lawyer who unlike chavez enjoyed a privileged upbringing. the son of a wealthy family that controls a media conglomerate and a chain of movie theaters has games supporters by promising to combat climate unemployment and corruption but opponents have charged a pretty as is deliberately hiding his real economic goals the candidates are. going to be worked out very chavez is the man of people he's come from this kind of poverty now works right or. change. is in me and the wealthy are the reason. steering the it's a choice between two radically different worldviews a referendum and then a socialist experiment. or

us promises get into the world update now it will start with hundreds of peace activists joined a two day march in pakistan against u.s. drone strikes in the country. which is travelling from islamabad to south is being led by cricketing legend imran khan he's since the days of cricketing he's become an opposition politician claims that the drone strikes have killed large numbers of civilians on enraged tribal factions he's now calling on people to shoot the drones out of the sky and the region there was a hotbed for taliban militancy and a major focus of u.s. strikes. the pope has been handed an eighteen month sentence. to a journalist private letters. said that he would not appeal the verdict he said to serve his sentence under house arrest however a papal spokesman said that benedict the sixteenth will most likely pardon his

former aide the high profile was exposed when an italian journalist published a book accusing the leaders of the roman catholic church of numerous intrigues corruption and homosexual affair. miners in south africa have gathered for a rally against the dismissal of twelve thousand of their colleagues they were sucked off to staging a strike demanding better pay and conditions the protestors are also mourning their colleagues killed by police in brutal clusters that began two months ago. the death toll in the ongoing deadly unrest has reached forty eight. but canadian authorities are not doing anything to help a russian student brutally beaten by inmates inside a calgary detention center that's according to the sister of twenty four year old denise tell ya corfu is now slowly recovering from severe head injuries to the act of travel to canada to study english but was arrested in august for allegedly threatening his classmate a charge that has since then been dropped an investigation into his beating is

ongoing now at a thorough these haven't yet released any details of the assault or charged anyone in connection with it his sister yet i know many of our also believe the canadian government is deliberately trying to ignore violent incidents that happened in the country's detention centers. not at first that is very often it's happening always there and it isn't a not a lot while then it was in i.c.u. unit there were five in me in the same hospital it was a different kind of in europe and it was happening with christopher to our audience you were good a little bit didn't do it he didn't find the darn hours at the end of the it's very long been happening over there but they never did enough they tried to hide it and i did not do is a human didn't try to reach me or state in the know they're not commenting anything and they absolutely are not helping me with eternal laying down he's not eating on his own he had

a cube in his throat and he's grieving through this to you. to color is still far away from this mine had to be just as you didn't like that and he does the rest of the rehab in here he might not qualify because you know just it doesn't can it can be like there was a special governmental program in the can you. do you want him to just mama take him back to ross and just load off all this little bit because they have to say for example. next month the u.s. will go to the polls to decide whether to keep iraq obama as president or to start anew but while experts continue slamming the entire electoral system for a lack of real choice and the voters themselves appear to be growing rather bored of the whole issue current resident in new york laurie oftenest hit the streets to dig up the dirt. the two thousand and twelve presidential elections why are they so boring this week

let's talk about that. so tired of all of it you know i mean it's almost like it's more than twenty four hours of coverage on everything you know no matter what happens and nothing happened exactly having said that i think obama's going to win do you think he believes in himself as much as he did four years ago because he seems kind of tired he seems like he's a little frustrated i think he's more tired of me around me and just all of this like he just wants to get it over to november and just like ok give me you know my polls and let me when president obama was in with the first african-american president i was so exciting no it's boring me again i don't know if there's going to be as much of a turnout for voters this year are you going to vote absolutely we're talking about the election you know. i'm not american you haven't let me now yeah we don't we don't want a lot of americans vote too apparently why do you want to run don't you think

either candidate can get it done i think there's too much corruption in the government and the bush kerry kerry yeah i was just like i like which one do i like the least ok i'll use the other a vote of the other one yes so it's kind of the same thing as two thousand and four that maybe i just like one of those here but i feel like they just wants to be to get it over with and they just want to hear more details on the plans gang get it over with and get on with it and do something for it saying what could they do to snatch things up not that's work. yet they're the smart ones with all the millions of dollars do you think they get put on a better show right. whether or not you think this election is boring the bottom line is we only have about a month until it's finally over and we can all gladly move on. thanks so much for joining us here in r.t. today you know just a couple of minutes it'll be i'll go off talking to the co-founder of casper ski

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